23 But you have mercy on all men, because you have power to do all things, and you overlook the sins of men to the end that they may repent. (WEB) 24 For you love all things that are, and abhor none of the things which you made; For you never would have formed anything if you hated it. (WEB) 25 How would anything have endured unless you had willed it? Or that which was not called by you, how would it have been preserved? (WEB) 26 But you spare all things, because they are yours, O Sovereign Lord, you who love the living. (WEB)
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